This chapter opens with the sound of the tide and the scent of flowers. It's the first time we've actually felt alive. This is weird, but it's cool. The body of fan xiao is flexible, and the tail of the beast is beautiful. The color of the tail is changing, and its fin is standing. He's ready to tell you why he wants the pearls. He wants to know why you want them. He asks you to put on his majesty and tell him why he needs them. The two of them have an exciting night. The barrier protecting the portal from the demon realm to the mortal world has been breaking down, and soon there'll be demons coming through it. Maybe he can fix it, he says. Maybe there's still some demons who'll listen to him. He says he'll take a bunch of people to check out the barrier first. He tells us that he's been trapped in the abyss for thousands of years, and now he finally has something interesting to say. He loves to take people's hopes away from them, and he doesn't want to kill him because he found him interesting. But then he framed him up, and then he won't let him in. So how did he get in there, he asks, by accident? He'll shout out his name until the seal is broken, and they'll spend their lives together.